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Torture Lover John Yoo Excoriates Obama For Banning Torture
Think Progress —
... throughout America. … His new order amounts to requiring — on penalty of prosecution — that CIA interrogators be polite.
Yoo has no idea what he’s talking about. Nothing requires anyone to “be polite” — although the rapport building method has often proved to be interrogators’ most effective technique. And the notion that good-cop/bad-cop would be banned is simply false, Media Matters pointed out earlier this week:
In fact, the Army Field Manual ...
B-B-B-Baby, Yoo Just Ain’t Seen Mutt and Jeff
The Agitator —
... Except that the Army Field Manual does have a section describing a “Mutt and Jeff” routine. Media Matters reports that in 2006 Army deputy chief of staff for intelligence Lt. Gen. John Kimmons described the routine as . . . another name for “good cop-bad cop.” ...
Torture Lover John Yoo Excoriates Obama For Banning Torture
The Hollywood Liberal —
... . And the notion that good-cop/bad-cop would be banned is simply false, Media Matters pointed out earlier this week: In fact, the Army Field Manual explicitly permits good cop-bad cop interrogations under the name of “Mutt and Jeff” interrogations, which involve two interrogators “display[ing] opposing personalities and attitudes toward the source.” The Field Manual says the “goal of this technique is to make the source identify with one of the interrogators and thereby establish[ing] rapport and cooperation.” It’s no secret that Yoo is an ardent torture enthusiast: He ...
B-B-B-Baby, Yoo Just Ain't Seen Mutt and Jeff
Hit & Run —
... Except that the Army Field Manual does have a section describing a “Mutt and Jeff” routine. Media Matters reports that in 2006 Army deputy chief of staff for intelligence Lt. Gen. John Kimmons described the routine as . . . another name for “good cop-bad cop.” ...
The Most Inept Analogy Ever?
Comments from Left Field —
... The next day, former Bush aide Karl Rove accused Obama of endangering the country by impeding interrogations of the enemy. “They don’t recognize we’re in a war,” said Rove. “In a war, you do not take tools that are working and stop using them and say we’ll get back to you in four months, six months, eight months, a year, and tell you what we’re going to do to replace this valuable tool which has helped keep America safe.”‘ ...
